A reassessment of the Third Republic as the first long-term successful French experiment with a democratic republic. Born of violent revolution against Church, monarchy, and aristocracy, it was fraught with contradictions between the universalism of human rights and the practical need to deny certain categories of people the rights of citizenship.

Hardcover, 272 pages

Published
January 15th 2010
by Palgrave Macmillan
(first published November 27th 2009)